Hello!I know that the post is old but in case someone still happens ...
I personally did not tell my partner because I debuted when we had been coming more than a year and a half, so he lived until my time of drinking like crazy, slimming a lot, etc.And he already noticed that something happened to me.Spoiler: We have married and we are still happy together.From time to time it helps me calculate some HC if we eat outside, for him it is the most normal thing in the world to see what I take out the ball and put insulin.And between the two we have cleared doubts and knocked down myths in our environment (especially in theirs, because in my family we already have a premium diabetics, I have an aunt that has been teenager in this club and is already greater than 60.)
But for whom something begins with a new person, I suppose it can be worrying and that it is difficult to say, that there are fears ... I know that it is not usual but this is what I would do if now I had to start with a boyNew (or girl, but in principle I am hetero hehe):
Step 1 - Invite him to eat or dinner (preferably to a site that already controls HC rations, you have to be a bit pill@;))
Step 2 - While you ask and bring you dinner, you take out the ball.You leave it at the table, to see what happens.He will ask what that is.Moreover, if he does not do it or at least looks at him curious, he runs out, it is a Ciborg.
Step 3 - "Ah, my insulin boli. It is that I have diabetes and I am an insulin -dependent. Well, like you, but I calculate it and punish it from outside. You do it too, but you don't even find out."And there you briefly explain how a common pancreas works and that yours is a bit different and needs external help instead of going automatically.You teach the sensor's mobile app if you carry it and explain these basic things that you will see what you do at a dinner/food: measure, calculate hydrates, click, etc.Surely he asks you more things and you help to break down those myths that we all know that they exist "no, I do not die for eating a caramel", "no, it is not the same as that of your grandmother who takes a pill", "No, there is no good and a bad one ", etc.
Step 4 - If you see what it costs, you are looking on YouTube "Carol has diabetes".That if with that my niece understood when I was 7 years old, surely your partner too.
Step 5 - If I still don't catch it and you see that it is reacting to being with a person who is not 100% mega -many ... Well, girl, it would not be the right one.If you love me, you love me with my silly pancreas, let's go in pack.
Step 6 - If it has not yet fallen into the battle, it has won and deserves a kiss.Be careful, crazy emotions rise glycemia.But well, some exercise of the leave (wink-guy)
Diabetes tipo 1 desde los 28. Cuando quedo con mis amig@s siempre llego tarde, en la diabetes no iba a ser diferente 😅 También tengo hipotiroidismo, asma y alergias varias... soy una pupas.
Levemir y Fiasp
Freestyle Libre 2
Última HbA1c: 6 (Marzo 2023)